To Keep Flowers Blooming

A.11 lovers oí nowers mustremember that one blossom allowed to mature or " go to seed " in jures the plant more than a dozen new buds. Cut your flowera, then, all of them, bef ore they fade. Adorn your rooms with them, put them on your tables; Bend bouquets to your friends who have no flowers, or exchange favors with those -who have. You will surely find that the more you cut off the more you will have. In this, as in other things, the wise man spo.ke truly when he said : " There is that scattereth and yet inoreaseth, and thero is that withholdeth more than is need, and it tendeth to poverty." All roses, after they have ceased blooming should be cut back, that the strength of the root inay go to forming new shoots for the next year and on those bushes not a seed should be allowed to mature. The Danbury "News man has had disappointments in London - as for instance, when filled with an unquenchable longing to see the queen, he stepped into a shoe-store doing business " by special appointmont to her majesty," and waited patiently for an hour for her to cali in " to see if that shoe was fixed." He afterward took a little ceusus, and found that the queen had 8,840 tobacoonists and 243 hatters. What is ïuind ? No matter. What is matter? Nover mind. What is the nature of the soul ? It is quito inmaterial, i The drunkard takes the pledge and frequently breaks it ; the pawnbroker 1 takes tho plodge and generally keeps it. It shows tho magnitude of the paper collar business that at the Lowell 1 ory, last Month, seven hundred and thirty-nine miles of cotton cloth for the manufacture of cloth-covered collari were finished.